Mr. T Quotes

It's important that I'm a role model and that the companies that I associate myself with feel the same way about their own images. Those are companies I'd like to be associated with.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.

If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

It used to be you could just write vaguely conservative things while running a Starbucks - now, you can't.

The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.

Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.

I would never do a sexist script.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

People like me have to have the discipline only to work for clients, corporations, political people, products, services, networks that we believe in and we want to see succeed.

Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

Ethics are more important than laws.

With scripts I've always looked at them and thought about kids, you know? Thought about the world and the impact... I won't do nudity and I never felt comfortable with that whole idea or things with huge sexual content - not my thing.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

I do not want to ask people to go consume something unless I think it is important in some way.